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Events - Annual Sessions - Worshipful Work
Thursday, June 18  
12 noon Registration begins
12:30 p.m. Table host orientation
1:30 p.m. Opening worship: “Once upon a time …”
2:30 p.m. Fellowship break & displays
3 p.m. Worshipful Work Session 1
  • Gathering song and prayer
  • Welcome and opening comments
  • ACTION on 2008 Annual Sessions minutes
  • Preliminary Listening Report I and table conversation
  • Worship break
  • Overview of new conference structure
  • ACTION on Gifts Development Team slate
  • Stewardship and Finance:
  • Announcements
5:15 p.m. Dinner / Pastor Appreciation Dinner
7:15 p.m. Worship with Dan Miller, lead conference minister “Bringing what we have”
After worship Ice cream social   (provided by the youth from Clinton Frame Mennonite)
   
Friday,
June 19		  
8:30 a.m. Morning prayer
9 a.m. Worshipful Work Session 2
10:30 a.m. Fellowship break & displays
11 a.m. Worshipful Work Session 3
  • Gathering
  • ACTION on 2009–10 Spending Plan
  • Highlighting conference leadership development resources
    • Conference web site
    • Lead Now
    • Missional Leader Networks
    • Pastoral Care series
    • Transitional Pastors
    • Pastoral Leadership Team weekend
  • Journey graduation
  • Introducing The Corinthian Plan
  • Announcements
12 noon Lunch / Mennonite Women lunch
1:30 p.m.

Worshipful Work Session 4

  • Gathering
  • ACTION on constitution
  • Report on Gifts Development Team slate affirmation
  • Congregational updates
  • Passing the torch (recognizing endings and beginnings)
  • Announcements
5:15 p.m. Dinner
7:15 p.m. Worship (in table groups): “Signs and wonderings”
    Offering to help cover Annual Sessions expense
   
Saturday, June 20  
8:30 a.m. Morning prayer
9 a.m. Worshipful Work Session 5
  • Gathering
  • Report on Spending Plan action
  • Report on constitution action
  • Regional pastor job narrative, reclustering and discussion on “what has been important that we want attended to in this change”
  • Worship break
  • Preliminary Listening Report III and table conversation
  • Resolution of thanks
  • Announcements
10:30 a.m. Fellowship break & displays
11 a.m. Worship: “And here we go”

 
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